<div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">"This is not your moment to get the last word in on yesterday's
arguments. I will individually moderate folks who rekindle those
discussions."</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">Are you saying that you are disallowing me from making substantive rebuttals to claims about men made in the thread Modern Sexism. If so I would like that spelled out for posterity. If that is the case I also think that is not what moderation is supposed to be used for.</pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">Censorship is censorship regardless of whether there are ancillary motivations (or if these are secondary motivations as I suspect) or the largesse of the actor applying said censorship.</pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">Censorship is not something only governments can do.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">Also as a side note. Acting through a proxy (as happened here where another moderator "promoted" Tom to moderator for the explicit purpose of being their proxy in this incident) when you are worried about the appearance of bias or conflict of interest does not remove the bias or conflict of interest inherent in said action. It only uses subterfuge to obfuscate the source of the bias.</pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">Shutting up dissent never strengthens an ideological position. It weakens it by allowing untested ideas to become cannon. </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">
<br></pre></span><div style="display:inline"></div>
</div>